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Faro has the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in Portugal, which was 32 °C (90 °F) on 26 July 2004. [18] With over 3000 hours of sunshine a year, Faro is often regarded as one of the sunniest cities in Europe, alongside nearby Tavira. [19] [20] [21] July and August have the most sunshine, while December has the least.
Faro (beer), a type of Belgian ale; Count of Faro, a Portuguese title; Faro (mythology), a god in Mande mythology; the title character of Buddy Faro, a 1998 television series, portrayed by Dennis Farina; Faro, a large cotton sphere burned inside churches on feasts of martyrs in the Ambrosian Rite; Faro (restaurant), a defunct restaurant in New ...
Faroese [a] (/ ˌ f ɛər oʊ ˈ iː z, ˌ f ær-/ ⓘ FAIR-oh-EEZ, FARR-; [3] endonym: føroyskt [ˈføːɹɪst]) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of whom 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
Faro District (Portuguese: Distrito de Faro ⓘ) is the southernmost district of Portugal. The area is the same as that of the Algarve region. The administrative centre, or district capital, is the city of Faro .
The national language of the Faroe Islands is Faroese.The Faroese language is a Germanic language which is descended from Old Norse.Danish is the official second language. [2]
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
The islands' endonym Føroyar, as well as its English name Faroe Islands (alt. Faeroe or the Faroes), derive from the Old Norse Færeyjar. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The second element oyar ('islands') is a holdover from Old Faroese ; sound changes have rendered the word's modern form as oyggjar .
Faro (/ ˈ f ɛər oʊ / FAIR-oh), Pharaoh, Pharao, or Farobank is a late 17th-century French gambling game using cards. It is descended from Basset , and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players.